misdescriptions

plural of misdescription

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Noun
  • Attorney Al Watkins, who represented the McCloskeys during the early stages of the controversy, said one of the biggest misconceptions about the case is what triggered the confrontation in the first place.
    Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 28 June 2026
  • One of the misconceptions about work from home or hybrid is that the entire workforce can avail itself with such arrangements.
    Joe McKendrick, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026
Noun
  • Municipal utilities are largely unregulated, which makes misjudgments in purchasing power contracts a serious risk to local ratepayers.
    Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 20 June 2026
  • The use of video technology has increased the scrutiny, even though it was never sold as a panacea to the issue of refereeing misjudgments.
    Graham Scott, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Dos and don’ts that prevent misinterpretations and ensure brand messaging is intentional.
    Andrea Aker, Forbes.com, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Beatty said those early misinterpretations frequently determine what evidence exists later.
    Stephen Martin, Oklahoma Watch, 13 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • False hopes about working in retirement speak to fundamental misunderstandings about retirement and the labor market, experts say.
    Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 20 June 2026
  • Also, misunderstandings can be dangerous.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 20 June 2026
Noun
  • Meanwhile, the New Atheists were making hay of the fact that such faithful misapprehensions about nature were easily disproved by scientific discovery.
    Elizabeth Bruenig, The Atlantic, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Ronald Reagan did not suffer from such misapprehensions.
    Gordon G. Chang, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2025
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“Misdescriptions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misdescriptions. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.

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